Word: contractive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fatality rate among those who contract it, and one authority predicts that one out of four Americans will, will be only about .005 per cent. In Asia the highest incidence of deaths was reported in the extreme age groups--young children and old people. In America deaths are expected to range between two and twenty thousand, and only one in a hundred cases will require hospitalization...
...uses the same raw material to tape-record 30-second hotspots that are used around the clock by 15 radio stations (top price: $50 weekly). Now Miller has filmed his first TV keyhole show (which he hopes to sell to WXEX in Richmond, Va.), and will sign a syndication contract with Intermountain Network, Inc., which will add its 57 Western stations to his string in October and, he hopes, boost his total income from $50,000 to $75,000 a year...
Nevertheless, to try to make up its losses, BOAC invoked contract penalties against Bristol. BOAC already has lost "well over" $5,600,000 because of the 312 delay, snapped Smallpeice. "It will not be surprising if we come out with a deficit this year." BOAC Chairman Gerard d'Erlanger took his own swipe at Bristol when asked if the line expects prompt delivery on its order for 15 Boeing 707 jetliners. Growled he: "American manufacturers do have a habit of being on time...
...personnel and press boss at General Electric, Vice President Lemuel R. Boulware, 62, was one of the most controversial labor-relations managers in the history of a new art. A tough, trap-jawed Kentuckian, Boulware was a hard bargainer during contract negotiations and never failed to point out what a company like G.E. did for its employees. Many businessmen considered "Boulwarism" a smart strategy for combating Big Labor, imitated it widely, even though unions bitterly hated...
...merger with National Distillers & Chemical Corp. to form the world's largest integrated producer of titanium and its lightweight cousin, zirconium. National Distillers will bring to the merger its new $24 million plant for titanium and zirconium sponge and a cushioning $22,650,000 Atomic Energy Commission contract for zirconium, which is used in reactors. More important, National has found a way to slash the sponges' high cost by using liquid sodium instead of magnesium in the reduction process. Together, the two companies hope to have enough resources (assets: $55 million) to cut costs and to develop civilian...